stop adobe phoning me

I've had my preferences set to "email and post only" from the very beginning, no Telephone Contacts, and I have never, ever received a single phone call from Adobe in the nearly 30 years that I've been a registered Adobe customer, since late 1984.

So it does work.

I would strongly advise AGAINST setting your preferences to "no eimal contacts", however.  You'd miss all Adobe security alerts, update notices, etc.

Like the OP, I have also declined to subscribe to the Cash Cow model, and will stay with CS6 13.0.6 until I or my computers die or become useless, whatever happens first.

Claudio is correct. But it's a fact of modern life.

Whether they lie (tell untruths) out side of their Call center life is doubtful. Often call center people have had better paying Jobs and lost them for whatever reason, andhave resigned themselves working in call centers. Therefore to keep the job to put meat and tatters (potatoes) on the table they sometime have to check their ethics at the door and tell blatant untruths .

I get this all the time with Politics and Charities, selling cars, selling software, credit checks, wanting you to get a credit card. I constantly tell please put us on a do not call list.  And inform them I am signed up for the National Do not Call list! They apologize say they will then the same person 20 minutes later will repeat the same spiel.

I know it is not pre - recorded because with pre - recorded it will ring and when you pickup there is dead air 2-3 seconds. If its like this your wasting you time.

And to beat it all, guaranteed times for them to call: Any time you would normally eat a Meal (breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, for the British high tea) Or a couple of hours before bedtime, or when you are answering mother nature's call. Another sure bet it’s a call center. Is they will let it ring 10, 20, 30 times or more.

Sometimes I lay the phone receiver down on a table. Once they figure they are talking to the coffee table, they quit. Or if I have one persistently pesky, I slam the receiver down so hard I know it has busted their ear drum. (I don't  care if it bust both). I put call center cold calls in same light as online Spammers.  I don't care who its from.